Revelation, 6 May 1833 [D&C
93]

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

Verely thus saith the Lord, it shall
come to pass, that evry soul who forsaketh their sins and cometh unto
me and
calleth on my name and obeyeth my voice and keepeth all my
commandments shall see my face
and know that I am and that I am the true light that lighteth evry
man who cometh into the
world; and
that I am in the father and the
father in me and the father and I are one the father because he gave me of his fulness and
the son becaus
I was in the world and made flesh my tabernacle and dwelt among the sons
of men I was in the world and received of my father, and
the works of him were plainly manifest and John saw and bear record
of the fulness of my glory and the fulness of Johns reccord is
hereafter to be reveiled and he bear reccord saying I saw his glory
that he was in the begining before the world was
therefore in the beginning the word
was for he was the word even the messenger of salvation the light and the
redeemer of the world the spirit of truth who came into the world becaus the world was made by him and in him
was the
Life of men
and the light of men the worlds were made by him
[p. [1]]

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

Verely thus saith the Lord, it shall
come to pass, that evry soul who forsaketh their sins and cometh unto
me and
calleth on my name and obeyeth my voice and keepeth all my
commandments shall see my face
and know that I am and that I am the true light that lighteth evry
man who cometh into the
world; and
that I am in the fathe[r] and the
father in me and the fathe[r] and I are one the father because he gave me of his fulness and
the son becaus
I was in the world and made flesh my tabernacle and dwelt among the sons
of men I was in the world and received of my father, and
the works of him were plainly manifest and John saw and bear record
of the fulness of his <my> glory and the fulness of Johns reccord is
hereafter to be reveiled and he bear reccord saying I saw his glory
that he was in the begining before the world was
therefore in the beg[inn]ing the word
was for he was the word even the messenger of salvation the light and the
redeemer of the world the spirit of truth who came into the world becaus the world was made by him and in him
was the <fife>light <Life> of men
and the light of men the worlds were made by him
[p. [1]]

Many of the early revelations focused
on church government or other matters of temporal concern, and this one
includes admonition to specific leaders to better oversee their families. But
most of this revelation is distinctly theological in nature. The circumstances
surrounding the revelation are not certain, although this text possibly
illuminated doctrinal issues raised in recent sessions of
Kirtland

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...

,
Ohio’s school of the prophets. It also may have been prompted by
JS’s revision of the New Testament, which was
completed in February 1833. Regardless, this
revelation was of great importance to the early church.

transcribed this text in mid-1833 into Revelation Book 2, where it appears
without specific identification.
John
Whitmer

27 Aug. 1802–11 July 1878. Farmer, stock raiser, newspaper editor. Born in Pennsylvania. Son of Peter Whitmer Sr. and Mary Musselman. Member of German Reformed Church, Fayette, Seneca Co., New York. Baptized by Oliver Cowdery, June 1829, most likely in Seneca...

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and 1,000 others; in 1838 about 2,000 Saints and 1,200 others; in 1839 about 100 Saints and 1,500 others. Mormon missionaries visited township...